California/Import

Imports and automated edits should only be carried out by those with experience and understanding of the way the OpenStreetMap community creates maps, and only with careful planning and consultation with the local community. See Import/Guidelines and Automated Edits code of conduct for more information. Imports/automated edits which do not follow these guidelines might be reverted!

openspace.org Bay area open space operated by openspace.org downloads contain boundaries, trails, parking lots,... MROSD has given explicit permission to upload open areas and trails. closed areas should be excluded.

calands.org It is basically a database of every single park at any level, city, county, state etc. in California. It also includes blm, open space and more. The data is owned by Green Info, based out of San Francisco. Larry Orman larry@greeninfo.org is the contact person. He wants to meet with someone from OSM to discuss importing the data. We need to make contact with him to get permission to use the data and see what requirements there are.

Update: Green info is in the process to verify the license terms of OSM data.
They are also interested in feedback, corrections and have started a project to add trails from osm into their own database.
Contact osm user user:srmixter or user:Apo42 if you are interested in this project.

LA County Assessor Parcel Viewer Scans of Los Angeles County assessor maps. Maps contain references to "MB nnnn ppp-ppp", which can then be used to get tract maps at LA County Land Records Tract Maps, or references to "PM nnn ppp-ppp", which can be used to get parcel maps at LA County Land Records Parcel Maps. Both are useful for correcting and adding missing street names, boundaries, etc. These are all scans, so import is unlikely, but they are a great official resource when dealing with conflicting information or new development areas. Tag with source_ref=ABKnnnn-sss;{TRtttt-ppp|PMmmm-ppp} and "source=LACA;LACDPW" to document (nnnn-sss is the Assessor's map book and sheet number, tttt-ppp is the tract map book and page number (MB) or mmm-ppp is the parcel map book and page number (PM)).

I, user:Aaron Lidman, contacted Mark Greninger, from LA County Chief Information Office, who clarified most of the data on the site is public domain (see "Free" category on left). As of December 2012, I'm organizing to propose multiple imports using this data. Anyone else interested in the project, contact me.

County status

Counties that have granted use of their shapefile gis data and imports added. Add any imports completed and projects you are working on here. Also feel free to add other counties that specifically let their data be used.

Note: the parcel data has exact data for each parcel, including the type i.e. residential, commercial and farm - even down to the type of crop grown. The shapefile breaks down into more than 100 osm files. srmixter.